Jon Garthwaite
Jon Garthwaite, Editor of Townhall.com, joins Chip to talk about the acquisition of the conservative web portal by Salem Communications, as well as his outlook of the future of politics online.
Some great advice from Charlie O’Donnell: I think marketing & PR firms, VC firms, anyone who has any kind of business interest whatsover in social media needs to mandate that the decision makers on your staff, right on up to the top, all “walk the floor”. Maybe Fridays should be “social media days” where the…
Yes, you need to have goals and a plan. No, you should not flip-flop on your choices all the time. But you should be ready to take chances and take advantage of new paths that appear in front of you unexpectedly. While the word “opportunistic” sometimes carries negative connotations and can suggest moral ambiguity, I’m…
Dave Winer offers an interesting post on his vision of the future of news on television. He sees a time when viewers get to control their personal view of the news. By providing preference information, they would see the kinds of stories they’re most interested in. He suggests it would become a “river of news,”…
If you read this space regularly, you know that I’m a bit of a data nerd. I love statistics, charts, and all sorts of quantitative analysis. I probably trust my gut feel more than numbers in the end, but I like to absorb the numbers to fuel my thinking. So it was with great interest…
Anyone who has ever worked for me knows that I love data to help me make decisions. Sure, I use my gut feelings a lot, too, just like any entrepreneur, but when I have access to good data and it makes sense, I want to use it as an aid. Often, data conflicts with anecdotal…
Christopher Penn of the Financial Aid Podcast discusses how the current economic environment impacts student options when paying for college. He shares tips and advice on how to minimize costs and maximize aid.